Connections #555 Answers
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #555 for Tuesday, December 17, 2024. The 16 words split into four groups by colour — yellow is easiest, purple the trickiest. The group themes are listed first as hints, then every group is revealed below. Looking for the latest puzzle? See today's Connections.
Hints — the four group themes
- Yellow (easiest): intrepidity
- Green: road
- Blue: kinds of paper
- Purple (hardest): kinds of tennis courts
Answers
INTREPIDITY
GRIT, HEART, NERVE, PLUCK
ROAD
ARTERY, AVENUE, DRAG, DRIVE
KINDS OF PAPER
CONSTRUCTION, GRAPH, TISSUE, WAX
KINDS OF TENNIS COURTS
CARPET, CLAY, GRASS, HARD
Previous Connections answers
- #554 — types of radio, kinds of play fights, snack cakes, classic joke staples
- #553 — spices, perform poorly, skim through, as pages, pop singers minus “s”
- #552 — fish, words in an auction-ending phrase, global currencies, words before “cup”
- #551 — fantasy creatures, email folders, citrus sodas, animal homophones
- #550 — things that sound like "t", objects with teeth, mild oaths, parts of a river
- #549 — utopia, things you shake, proper noun portmanteaux, ending in synonyms for “friend”
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